RockMay

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1. Online Direct Entry MSN, PA, or Nurse Anesthesist

   RockMay replied to AC7941's topic in Online Learning

   I'd like to suggest that prior to or considering becoming a PA you learn the correct name of the profession.

2. Happy with your credentials?

   RockMay replied to Cwoods's topic in NP

   Majority of MSN to DNP programs require no additional clinicals whatsoever (as they do not provide additional skills, just additional busywork).

3. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in NP

   LOLnope!

4. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in NP

   My cynicism of NP education, practice, and existence is due to the complete lack of education, lack of preparation for practice practice, and insistence that the NP job should not exist as it clearly endangers patients.

5. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in NP

   You have an interesting albeit incorrect way of presenting information.

6. PA practice authority

   RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in NP

   Correct. PAs have more education which is superior in depth and quality to that of NP education. Incorrect. The title is Physician Assistant. There is no possessive after physician. Incorrect. PAs obtain their own licenses from their state board ...

7. Stop the preceptor madness!

   RockMay replied to Rocknurse's topic in NP Students

   All about the money. IMHO I can't understand how a school can ever be given or maintain accreditation when they literally throw their students to the wolves with finding preceptors.

8. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in NP

   They might require an "intro to organic chemistry" or "principals of organic chemistry" but those are not true orgo 1 and orgo 2 courses. Those of us who took actual orgo 1 and 2 look on those baby courses are complete fluff.

9. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

   RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in NP

   How many NP programs require two semesters of orgo chem?

10. Would you still become a NP or would you go the MD route?

    RockMay replied to OrangeSN's topic in NP

    How many NPs took Orgo Chem 1 and 2? How many who tried actually passed?

11. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in NP

    It's a story I personally know and there is no link. The case was settled out of court as most malpractice cases are. You speak about a hope to "improve NP education" but you fail to see that the standards are so extremely deficient that NPs are plac...

12. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in NP

    I personally know a recent horror story of an NP who went to an all online NP program who killed a patient by failing to recognize this patient was having an MI. She was working in the ED "fast track" and diagnosed this patient with "chest wall strai...

13. Why have you decided to become a NP and not a Doctor?

    RockMay replied to Lightning90's topic in NP

    There are no online PA programs. Not one single PA program exists which takes someone who is not a PA and able to educate them to become a PA. What does exist are online programs which take existing PAs already in practice and allows them to earn a m...

14. 2 month vaccination question

    RockMay replied to nurselove757's topic in NP

    This is absolutely horrifying. 4 case studies in pediatrics and yet this person is somehow legally allowed to be an independent practitioner? Contrast this to the family medicine physician who has to do three years of training after graduation from m...

15. FNP-BC & FNP-C

    RockMay replied to matthewandrew's topic in NP

    Two competing organizations which claim to be "the" certification for FNPs is extremely absurd!